Corner-piece for trunks, &amp;c.



No. 797,495. PATENTED AUG. 15, 1905. J. P. CLARK.

CORNER PIECE FOR TRUlfIKS, &0. APPLICATION FILED MAY23, 1905 rrrr s ra rns rnn'r or tion.

JAMES P. CLARK, OF NEWARK, NEl/V JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE R. NEU MANN HARDWARE (10., A CORPORATION OF NE'W JERSEY.

CORNEFPFIECE FOR "WQUNK$, due.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Aug. 15, 1905.

Application filed May 23, 1905. Serial No. 261,748.

1 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES P. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corner-Pieces for Trunks, &e.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to secure increased neatness of construction, to reduce the cost of construction, and to providea corner clamp, protector, or buffer at a limited expense which will be strong, durable, and effective in performing the functions necessarily involved in a good corner-clamp; to prevent the edges of the leather of said clamp from curling, and thus becoming more liable to be drawn off from the case or trunk; to enable waste leather to be employed in the construction of the buffer, and to obtain other advantages and results, some of which may be hereinafter referred to in connection with u the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved corner clamp, buffer, or protector for suit-cases, trunks, &c., and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved corner-clamp in connection with a suit-case or similar receptacle, the said clamp being shown partly broken away and in section. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the metallic frame of said corner-clam p. Fig. 3 is a detail plan of a leather piece or part adapted to be arranged in connection with said frame. Fig. 4 is a back or inside view of the parts of the corner-clamp in relative position, and Fig. 5 is a detail section taken at line an In said drawings, 5 indicates a portion of a suit-ease, trunk, or similar receptacle, preferably of leather or some such material, at the corner of which the clamp is applied. Said clamp comprises a metallic frame 6, of brass or other similar metal, having three sides to engage the three sides of the trunk forming a corner. Said frame is open at the three sides, as at 61, and through the openings thereof may be seen leather plates 7, which lie within the frame against the side of the case to protect the same. Three of such plates lying edge to edge, as indicated in Fig. 4:, may be brought together to resemble the corner-clamp commonly found in the market formed from one piece of leather and shaped to receive a corner of the suit-case or receptacle. Thus in practice when the improved piece is applied to the trunk it has the ap pearance of the usual one-piece leather buffer or protector having a metallic frame therearound, while, in fact, it comprises three pieces of leather and yet has ample if not greater strength and protective capacity than the one-piece leather corner-protector.

In my improved construction I utilize scrapleather, which might otherwise be a waste product.

The frame 6 comprises three angular extensions 8 8 8 from the corner 81, each extension being angular in cross-section and at its outer extremities being connected by curved extensions 9 to the adjacent arms, the latter having at their centers integral eyes 10 to receive the nails, tacks, or rivets by which the corner-clamp is fixed to the case or trunk, and the frame 6 and leather pieces 7 at the inside of said-frame are held together. Thus united the trunk is given increased. protection as compared with the protection afforded by a simple clamp of leather, the leather parts are joined together with great security, theleather is economized, and the clamp as a whole reduced in cost as compared with a solid metal corner-clamp, and withal a clamp or protector of greater eflicicncy is obtained.

Under some conditions I may employ my frame in connection with a three-sided leather clamp of one integral piece.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. A corner clamp or protector for suitcases comprising three angular extensions, integrally united one with another at one of their extremities and at their opposite extremities being joined together by integral extensions having an eye formed at the center thereof, substantially as set forth.

2. The improved corner clamp or protector for suit-oases comprising three angular extensions integrally united one With another at one of their extremities and at their opposite extremities being joined together by integral extensions having an eye formed at the center thereof, and three pieces of leather inserted Within said frame and held therein by rivets extending through said eye, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of May, 1905.

JAMES P. CLARK.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, RUSSELL M. EVERETT. 

